Beyond spending time getting ready for Velocity and Open Source Summit Europe this week, there was some feature testing this week that compared MySQL and MariaDB. Naturally, a long report/blog is coming soon. Stay tuned.

Releases

I reckon a lot of folks are swamped after Percona Live Europe Dublin and Oracle OpenWorld, so the releases in the MySQL universe are a bit quieter.

The MySQL 8.0.3 release candidate has backup locks, quite similar to what’s been in Percona Server for MySQL. This is great news!

Andy Jassy tweeted that Amazon Web Services Database Migration Service just hit 40,000 migrations. This is amazing, considering the service launched late 2015 and the general idea has always been “migrations are hard, start your next database project with the new tool.”

Upcoming Appearances

Percona’s website keeps track of community events, so check out where to see and listen to a Perconian speak. My upcoming appearances are:

Feedback

I was asked why there weren’t many talks from MariaDB Foundation / MariaDB Corporation at Percona Live Europe 2017. Simple answer: there were hardly any submissions. We had two talk submissions from one speaker from the MariaDB Foundation (we accepted the one on MariaDB 10.3). There was another talk submission from a speaker from MariaDB Corporation (again, accepted). We announced the second talk in the sneak preview, but the talk was canceled as the speaker was unable to attend. We did, however, have a deep breadth of talks about MariaDB, with many talks that discussed high availability, security, proxies and the like.

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Colin Charles is the Chief Evangelist at Percona. He was previously on the founding team for MariaDB Server in 2009, worked in MySQL since 2005, and been a MySQL user since 2000. Before joining MySQL, he worked actively on the Fedora and OpenOffice.org projects. He's well known within many open source communities, and has spoken on the conference circuit.